HSE & Sustainability
The AI revolution isn't just digital. This article examines how geology underpins the convergence of AI, energy, carbon management, and the infrastructure powering frontier LLMs.
Winners of Alberta's Drilling Technology Challenge cover a range of technologies from robotics to enhance drilling rig safety to AI-enabled energy management, downhole sensing, well navigation, hybrid power systems, and geothermal energy.
Located along the North Sea, the Humber is expected to play a central role in the UK’s effort to achieve a net-zero emissions status by 2050.
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The Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church is developing a system for analyzing company ethics, and top mining and oil companies will be graded by the end of 2018.
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Academic scientists and advocacy groups are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw and rewrite proposed guidelines for determining which scientific findings to use when evaluating the safety of toxic chemicals.
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The National Oceanography Centre is set to start a 5-year project that will use marine robots to investigate how meltwater from Greenland and Arctic ice is changing deepwater formation in the North Atlantic.
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How can corporate trainers prepare employees for dangerous or extraordinary workplace scenarios? Virtual-reality technology offers immersive learning opportunities for an increasingly broad range of experiences.
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Chemical demand is essential to long-term oil demand growth. However, the focus to tackle plastics waste by reducing and recycling is raising concerns on future chemical demand growth.
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For his efforts in turning Environmentally Friendly Drilling from an oxymoron to a ubiquitous concept, Rich Haut has earned SPE’s 2018 Health, Safety, and Environment Award. The award will be presented at the SPE’s 2018 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in September.
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Determining the best way to meet the needs of colleagues and employers, as well as enlisting them to help meet goals, takes effective listening.
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Welding produces miscellaneous gases and particles that have various effects on respiratory systems, and long-term exposure may result in "welder's lung." The aim of this study is to describe radiological findings of welders' lung.
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Nighttime environmental noise affects sleep quality. However, the effects of daytime occupational noise remain unclear.
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Chris Hawkes, safety and security director for the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, spoke with reporter Eithne Treanor at the 2018 SPE International Conference and Exhibition on Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility, which was held in Abu Dhabi.